advanced code snippet search

Posted By

i-am-andy on 08/23/11


Tagged

php wordpress


Versions (?)

Get Posts from Category

 / Published in: PHP
 

Useful snippet for getting a specific number of posts from a specific category, useful for news listing in sidebar

Expand | Embed | Plain Text 
  1. <ul>
  2.     <?php
  3.     global $post;
  4.     $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=6&category=3');
  5.     foreach($myposts as $post) :
  6.     setup_postdata($post);
  7.     ?>
  8.   <li>
  9.     <div class="news_ticker_articles">
  10.       <p><strong> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">
  11.         <?php the_title(); ?>
  12.         </a> </strong></p>
  13.       <p class="excerpt_bottom"><? echo bm_better_excerpt(100, '...'); ?></p>
  14.     </div>
  15.   </li>
  16.   <?php endforeach; ?>
  17. </ul>

Report this snippet  

You need to login to post a comment.